The difference between these and old head enchants is that you don't get them by farming rep, you assemble the vast majority of the components simply by doing the raiding you would be doing anyway.

So your argument is that the old enchants were easier to get so they were removed, but the current metas are more difficult so they are allowed? I can understand the reasoning if it were applied to entry level raiders, but adding these metas feels like blizzard removed a simple chore and replaced it with much more a tedious chore for items that serve similar purposes.

So your argument is that the old enchants were easier to get so they were removed, but the current metas are more difficult so they are allowed? I can understand the reasoning if it were applied to entry level raiders, but adding these metas feels like blizzard removed a simple chore and replaced it with much more a tedious chore for items that serve similar purposes.

As a raider (the people that really need the gem anyway), I'm not going out of my way to get the meta gem. I will still just get it from doing what I would already do, which is raid.

As a raider that needed a helm enchant, I had to go out of my way and do something I wouldn't have done otherwise.

So again, for raiders, which is the main target playerbase these legendaries are for, this is actually easier.

As a raider (the people that really need the gem anyway), I'm not going out of my way to get the meta gem. I will still just get it from doing what I would already do, which is raid.

As a raider that needed a helm enchant, I had to go out of my way and do something I wouldn't have done otherwise.

So again, for raiders, which is the main target playerbase these legendaries are for, this is actually easier.

Plus there was no substitution for the head enchants. You either ground out the rep or you didn't get a head enchant. With the new meta legendaries if you don't have the legendary you can still use the normal meta.

Raiders raid and do dailies anyway. Dailies fill in the valor cap nicely.

2 BGs is whatever. Surely no rep grind.

Raiders may choose to do dailies. Dailies are a nice way to hit two stones with one bucket since they generally bring you to areas where you kill things for rep. If you don't enjoy doing dailies, and dailies are entirely optional, you need to grind out revered with the black prince. It takes about as long as grinding out a rep for head enchants.

I mean ... it doesn't change anything at all in the game, and the lore behind thoses gems is poor, instead of calling theses gems crystallized dread/horror/terror, couldn't they give a more legendary name ?

Like for example :
Azureus, sapphire of the abyssal depths
Pyron, ruby of the infernal flames

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

´So.. sorry to bring this up but..you know that .."thing" (Med'an).. is that "thing" cannon still?
...as much have some have wished otherwise, yes. (Loreology)

Raiders may choose to do dailies. Dailies are a nice way to hit two stones with one bucket since they generally bring you to areas where you kill things for rep. If you don't enjoy doing dailies, and dailies are entirely optional, you need to grind out revered with the black prince. It takes about as long as grinding out a rep for head enchants.

If you don't wanna just do the dailies and get the BP rep then that's whatever. The legendary meta gem isn't a requirement at all to clear content. I'm more than 100% certain that the raid will be cleared by a good amount of guilds before its theoretically possible to obtain it anyway.

You still get a standard meta gem to fill your socket. In Cata, you had to grind the rep or you simple had no head enchant. It's like leaving a piece of gear ungemmed or unenchanted. That isn't the case with the legendary meta.

Of all the stupid things WoW players bitch about, I mean come on. It's a gem available to you from nothing more than lfr. The quests aren't hard, and they aren't particularly time consuming either. If you're going to raid, you'll end up with the gem. If you're not going to raid, then you don't need the gem anyway.

So is this what you do? Make an argument and tell everyone else that someone else somewhere disproved their arguments but you can't be bothered to do it yourself?

You're coming into the argument uninformed. Please educate yourself before you participate in intelligent discussions.

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Originally Posted by skitzy129

You still get a standard meta gem to fill your socket. In Cata, you had to grind the rep or you simple had no head enchant. It's like leaving a piece of gear ungemmed or unenchanted. That isn't the case with the legendary meta.

You had other options besides the rep grind for the head enchant.

Edit: In fact, since there seems to be a couple of people here that are uninformed, I will do a favor to everyone by providing a link. I got it from a simple google search that anyone could have used.